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Engraved elevation of the east front of the Horse and Foot Guards at Whitehall, with a central clock tower and arcaded wings.

The East Front of the Horse and the Foot Guards at Whitehall

Benjamin Cole, 1740

Engraved design of a decorative fireplace with a central medallion portrait, sphinx figures, flanking eagles and paneled door

Design for Mantle Piece, from "Cheminées et Lambris"

Jean Le Pautre, 1670

Engraving of armed crowds and cannon in front of the Tuileries Palace facade, with fallen bodies and smoke in the foreground.

Storming of the Tuilleries Palace, Paris, 1792

Isidore-Stanislaus-Henri Helman, 1790

Engraving of Hercules on a fiery pyre with a nude figure beside him, a distant walled town and a river on the right.

The Death of Hercules

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of two peasant couples: dancing figures on the left and a drunken man being supported on the right, labeled Novembe

November and December

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of a long-haired man holding an ornamental design, with goldsmith tools and an acanthus vase on a table beside him.

Trade card of Louis Roupert, master goldsmith of Metz

Louis Cossin, 1680

Pen etching of a satyr and bacchante in ivy wreaths seated on a lion skin, with a horned female faun and a tent behind them.

Copy of Bacchante, Satyr, and Female Faun, from the series Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraving of mythological figures in a garden, with a sun chariot in the clouds above and figures turning into flowers.

L'Empire de Flore

Gérard Audran, 1680

Engraved street view of townhouses along a canal with a crane at left, pedestrians and a horse rider in the street.

Peep-show, View Near the Park, Toward the Bridge of Leyden in The Hague

Georg Balthasar Probst, 1800

Engraved view of Florence's Arno river with a stone bridge, riverside palaces, rowing boats and figures on the bank.

View of the Lungarno and the Ponte Santa Trinita

Francheschini, 1710

Sepia print of ruined Dunstanburgh Castle on a hill above rocky shore, with a cottage, sheep and breaking waves.

Dunstanburgh Castle, from "Liber Studiorum," part III

James Mallord William Turner, 1800

Engraved view of the Queen's Palace in St. James's Park with figures on the lawn and a cloudy sky.

The Queen's Palace in St. James's Park, from Walter Harrison's History of London

John Cooke, 1740

Etching of a village by a river with a winding wooden bridge, half-timbered houses, a church steeple and a hilltop castle.

Landscape with a winding wooden Bridge

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1540

Engraved print of a waterfall under a stone arch bridge, with trees, rocky cliffs, strolling figures and a tower on a hill.

The Devil's Bridge, near Cassel, Germany

Friedrich Schroeder, 1790

Engraving of a woman at left, men at an open door, and a reclining man on a canopied bed in an interior.

Thamar ejected from her brother's house

Netherlandish Martin Van Heemskerk, 1550

Engraving of a biblical interior with robed men, armored soldiers, a canopied bed, and a seated dog in the foreground.

Ammon Begs the King to Summon his Sister Thamar

Netherlandish Martin Van Heemskerk, 1550

Engraved print of the Buyten Hof in The Hague with a carriage, riders, and pedestrians on a cobbled square.

Peep-show, View of the Buyten Hof in The Hague

Georg Balthasar Probst, 1800

Three Grotesque Heads in Profile (After Hogarth)

Jane Ireland, 1790

Engraved interior of a columned hall with seated deputies facing a raised throne under a canopy, crowded with spectators.

Meeting of the States General at Versailles in 1789

Isidore-Stanislaus-Henri Helman, 1790

Engraved elevation of rococo paneled wall with two arched windows and mirror panels, Palais Bourbon bedroom.

Decoration of the Bedroom in Palais Bourbon

Jacques Gabriel, 1710

Engraved street view of the Old City Hall on Wall Street with columns, a cupola, strolling figures and a large tree.

View of the Old City Hall, Wall Street

Hatch and Smillie, New York, NY, 1820

Engraved elevations of two Paris hotel vestibules with paneled doors, arched windows, pilasters and rococo carved ornament.

Decoration of the Two Vestibules in Hotel Roquelaure

Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, 1710

Engraved view of Florence's Piazza della Signoria with Palazzo Vecchio tower and crowds at a festival procession.

View of Palazzio Vecchio, Loggia, and Pizza on Occation of Fête in homage to St. John the Baptist, Plate 23 from "Sce…

Carlo Gregori, 1740

Engraved view of a formal garden with a tiered cascade, fountains, tree-lined paths and strolling figures in period dress.

View of the Fountains at Brunoy

Pierre Philippe Choffard, 1760

Engraved Harper's Weekly page of Civil War soldiers marching, a mounted officer, and song titles like Dixie.

The Songs of the War

Winslow Homer, 1860

Etching of a woodland landscape with a resting traveller and dog beside a stream, tall trees framing the scene.

Landscape With Traveller Resting

Anthonie Waterloo, 1650

Engraved plans and elevations of London Bridge showing arches, towers and a church tower, with scale bars and text.

Plans for the New London Bridge

Benjamin Cole, 1740

Wood engraving page of Civil War news vignettes: a woman reading a letter, soldiers, sailors, and men grabbing newspapers fro

News from the War

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of soldiers attacking two bastions at a breach made by mines, with cannon smoke and a city skyline behind.

The Attach of Two Bastions, at Breches Made by Springing Mines, from Twelve of the Most Remarkable Sieges and Battles…

Carington Bowles, 1770

Engraving of Union soldiers in a dense bayonet charge across a smoky field, rifles raised, with a tree and distant troops.

The War for the Union, 1862 - A Bayonet Charge

Winslow Homer, 1860